Manash Pratim Borah Assistant Professor in English Central Institute of Himalayan Culture Studies, Dahung (An Autonomous Institute under the Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India) The general consensus regarding the post-1947 or the post- independence poetry Indian Poetry in English is that it marks a decisive break with the ‘tradition’ established so far by the…
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Re-Inscribing the Mother within Motherhood: A Feminist Reading of Shauna Singh Baldwin’s Short Story Naina
Basudhara Roy Assistant Professor Department of English Karim City College Jamshedpur “The fetus in utero has become a metaphor for “man” in space, floating free, attached only by the umbilical cord to the spaceship. But where is the mother in that metaphor? She has become an empty space.” (Katz-Rothman, 1986: 114) Katz-Rothman’s concern over the…
Deconstructing Race: Gobinism and Miscegenation in Pearl S. Buck
Aysha Munira The 17th and 18th centuries saw the emergence of the idea of race, along with the rise of colonialism and transatlantic slave trade. By the end of the seventeenth century, the racial category of “black” evolved with the consolidation of racial slavery, in the United States. The specific identities of Africans were engulfed…
Race, Multiculturalism and Immigrant Identity in Bharati Mukherjee’s Desirable Daughters
Ashish Kumar Gupta GIC Lecturer and Research Scholar Department of English University of Allahabad. Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains. Rousseau, The Social Contract The cerebral tourism of Desirable Daughters conducts us frequently from India to the USA and vice-versa to connect the cultural, social, economical and religious life of remote…
Caressing the White Body: A Bleak Hope in Ann Petry’s The Narrows
Ashaq Hussain Parray Assistant Professor English. IUST, Awantipora, J&K, India. Racism and sexism are inseparable part of Afro-American women’s fiction. Right from the first black woman poet Phyllis Wheatly to Alice Walker, racism and sexism have been the unavoidable themes. Iola LeRoy, Shadows Uplifted by Frances Ellen W. Harper was the first novel by an…
Representing Metropolitan Youth Culture: An assessment of Chetan Bhagat’s Five Point Someone and One Night @ the Call Center
Arvind Jadhav Assistant Professor in English Yashwantrao Chavan College of Science, Karad Dist – Satara, India ( MS ). Chetan Bhagat born in Delhi -the metropolitan city and the capital of India- is an emerging author in Indian English Literature. The Army Public School, Delhi prepared him up to XII to get into Indian Institute…
Vijay Tendulkar’s Ghashiram Kotwal: A Denunciation of Fraudulent Politicians, Policemen and Prostitutes
A.Anitha Raj Assistant Prof. of English, V.V.Vanniaperumal College for Women, Virudhunagar. Man is a political animal says Aristotle; the political ideas and intuitions are outcome of the political nature of man. Politics relates man in a state or government. The struggle for power, persecution, tyranny, sufferings, passivity and submission has been a continuous process from…
Communal Violence: A Reading of Raj Kamal Jha’s Fireproof
Akhilesh Kumar Dwivedi Research Scholar, Deptt. of English, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India India is the largest democracy in the world. No other country shows such diversified coalition of people living together as this country does. One can easily perceive that people from different castes, backgrounds, religions, cultures, regions etc. live together in a single…
In the Face of Enemy within the Four Walls: Women in Khaled Hosseini’s a Thousand Splendid Suns
Jamsheed Ahmad Ph.D Scholar Dept of English AMU, Aligarh 202002, India. Patriarchy has different reincarnations in different cultures and it has its various hues and colours and manifests itself in different societies in their specific customs, value systems, worldviews and various social discourses. Novel and specially the realistic novel is one particular form of discourse…
Quest for Identity in Margaret Atwood’s Lady Oracle
Zeinab Yazdani, Ph.D. Student, University of Mysore, Mysore. and Dr. Devikarani L. Reader in English, University of Mysore, Mysore. Lady Oracle is Margaret Atwood’s third novel which was written in the 1970s and it deals with the woman’s role and condition in a society which is dominated by men. The novel can be called a…